What is scrapple? It's likely that many have never heard of this dish. It sounds like it contains apples, but this isn't true, as the dish is derived from scraps of meat - pork - left over after the carcass was butchered.
Scrapple is an American dish, but it has its origins in other dishes going all the way back to Roman times. The first scrapple recipes are believed to have been created by German colonists to the Americas in the 17th and 18th centuries who settled in Pennsylvania, with that state and the surrounding being where the dish is most well known. It is also strongly associated with the Pennsylvania Dutch and the Amish.
The dish is made from pork scraps which are then combined with flour, cornmeal and spices and formed into a loaf shape. This loaf is then sliced, and the slices are fried before eating.
Scarpple is a dish that was intended to make sure nothing of the pig was wasted. The pork used in it would not have been used in anything else.
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